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n, combined with religious
exercises, whereby occult power is acquired.
Yunani = pertaining to Greece. This is the word usually applied to
that system of native medicine which was derived from the Greeks; in
Europe it is spoken of in connection with the name of Hippocrates,
who formulated it. The other, or Hindu system, is the Vedic; those
who practise the former are called hakims, the latter baids.
Z.
Zamindar = a farmer, a landowner.
Zyarat = a shrine; the grave of a holy man; a place of pilgrimage.
NOTES
[1] More probably from the Greek kofinos.--J. C.
[2] In a booklet published by the Church Missionary Society, entitled
"Delawar Khan."
[3] S. E. Stokes in The East and the West for April, 1908.
[4] "Across our Indian Frontier," by Colonel G. Wingate, C.I.E.
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